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FEATURE: One Tough Dude

Western Michigan football coach Tim Lester can easily describe his senior defensive end Antonio Balabani.

''Because of his background, he is one tough dude,'' Lester simply says. ''He's always where you need him to be on the football field.''

That background includes the family being driven out of their home in Kosovo when Balabani was three years old because of the war between the Serbs and Albanians.

All that led him to Western Michigan, where he is a senior with a tough major in engineering design technology.